[iDriveX]

So I'm selling a laptop on Craig's List Los Angeles. And a guy responded to my ad:

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Hello,
Compliment of the season to you.I'm franklyn ken from PENNSYLVANIA, but Presently i'm leading a conventional church program in London. I saw your item (99770637) and i'll like to buy it for my son that will be starting a Computer science course in University of Nigeria Next week. Do not worry about the shipping of the item, i have an account with FEDEX and i'll be sending you my FEDEX account number for the shipping . Moreover i would have prefer to send you a cheque but simply because i want you to ship the item first thing tomorrow morning, i will be sending you payment via PAYPAL,so make sure you get the package ready for tomorrow shipment ok? And kindly send me your paypal address or your contact,so i can make the payment right away. Thanks franklyn ken

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Hmmm In London? University of Nigeria? Has his own FedEx account number? He's from Pennsylvania and Capitalizes it and he spells check with a qu? Sounds like fraud to me, but I'm a trusting guy, I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt, so I write back:

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Hello Mr. Ken-

Thank you for your interest. Please send PayPal payment to "idrivex@mac.com". That is my paypal address. Also please send me your FedEx account number so that I can send you the laptop. Things to note:

- If you pay via PayPal with a Credit Card, it will be an instant transfer of funds and I can release the laptop to you in the morning.
- If you pay via PayPal out of your bank account, PayPal will delay my receipt of the funds until the bank account has been debited and PayPal has received the funds. If you decide to pay via this option, I will have to hold onto the laptop until the funds have shown "cleared" in my PayPal account.

Please send me an eMail back when you have made PayPal payment. Thank you.

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I sent that letter thinking that if he was going to attempt bank fraud with PayPal that at least I'd know about it before he got the computer. Boy was I wrong. I definitely underestimated the frauder. I got this e-mail back.

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See this link for screenshot of eMail

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Now, for the unsuspecting internet denizen, this could have spelled trouble. Besides the glaring spelling mistakes and a feature that paypal doesn't even offer, I smelled rat all over it. Then he sends me this eMail about two second after I got the PayPal one.

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Hello,
I have made out my payment to you for this item purchase (99770637),So check your mail for the comfirmation mail from paypal.Get back to me immediately if you receive the confirmation mail from paypal and don't forget to send me your physical contact address and the exact time you will be at home tomorrow.So i can schedule Fedex to come and pick them up from you in other to reduce the stress of you driving down to their location to send it.Then i can send you my son's address and fedex account number.Hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely. Thanks

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Ahhh Sincerely thanks to you Mr. Ken! So I told him that fed ex picks up packages every day from my work and it wouldn't be a problem and to send along the fedex account number so I can send him his laptop. I also thanked him for making the whole process so painless and smooth.

Then I took a picture of my middle finger, imported it into photoshop and wrote "Nice Try A**hole" and slipped it into a FedEx envelope. And then I may or may not have wiped myself with the corners of the piece of paper before I put it in the envelope. Smell ya later Mr. Ken.

[Gator Lager]

ha good one. I hate them bas'turds. I bet that person likes receiving email. post his email address on some porn site.

[iDriveX]

Good call. I'm going to go put him on every mailing list I know!

[iDriveX]

I hope he likes the iTunes Music Store and Apple Products Also I hope he likes C*mfiesta.com, BigNaturals.com, DirtyDanza.com,MILFHunter.com, NewScientist.com, globeandmail.com, and frostedfaces.com

[starman]

Dude, that's awesome. You DID report him didn't you?

I'm curious, where do the links send you to?

Mike

[iDriveX]

The links send you to PayPal's actual website. The one that tells you to view the transaction online sends you to a very authentic looking PayPal page. Everything is correct except this little bit o code...

Code:
<tr>
<td align="right" class="label">
<input type="hidden" id="" name="login_email" value="zllgl05@aol.com"><label for="login_password">Password:</label>
</td>
<td><br></td>
<td>
<input type="password" id="login_password" name="login_password" value="" size="20" maxlength="40"> <span class="small"><a href="#" onClick="javascript:openWindowATC('https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_forgot-password','','640','700','', windowNamer('https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_forgot-password'));return false;">Forgot your password?</a></span><script language="JavaScript">document.login_form.login_password.focus();</script>
</td>
</tr>

If you are familiar with reading HTML forms, no matter what you put in there, it will automatically redirect you upon clicking to the PayPal "Lost Your Password" site, but it will also eMail your password to zllgl05@aol.com, who has also been signed up for a lot of spam sites as well!

Scary stuff out there man....scary stuff.

Yeah I reported the A-hole to PayPal, but they have their heads so far up their butts that no one will even care. I like instant Karma better.

[iDriveX]

This just keeps getting better. In case anyone needs some FedEx packages sent out, I've got a good, working FedEx account number for everyone:

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Hello ,
Thanks for co-operation,you will be giving a form to fill for international shipment.Fill forms with the shipping and receivers address informations and account number.A tracking number will be giving to you and you are to send tracking to me and to paypal at (pay-palcares@consultant.com) for verification and your account will be credited immediately.i will like you to write down $120 as the value so as to reduce charges for my daughter.
Below is my FEDEX ACCOUNT NUMBER
(867-5309)
COMMERCIAL INVOICE
__________________________________________________ ____
SHIPPPER
put all your physical Address here
RECEIVERS ADDRESS
Name : okolo albert
Address : E line highway patrol barrack ,flat 11
City : Ikeja
State : Lagos
Country : Nigeria
Zipcode : 23401
TEL ; 23480-29769311
GOODS DESCRIPTION
__________________________________________________ _______
ITEMS QTY PRICE
: Laptop 1 $120
__________________________________________ ________________
SUBTOTAL $50
FEDEX ACCOUNT #:xxxxxxxxx
SHIPPED DATE:30/09/2005
Reply me soon

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Oh Mr. Ken, I plan on reply you soon as I send out your $10,000 declared laptop. And a few other packages to friends back east. Anyone need anything to be picked up at the Apple store and shipped to them? Australians? I know we've got some Australian's on this board. Who wants free shipping! We'll order from Small Dog so it's tax free and then ship it courtesy of Mr. Ken and his daughter Okolo. I wonder if Lagos is hot this time of year?

[Gator Lager]

ha, thats classic.
like you said "instant Karma" .
good one

[Person Man]

Originally Posted by iDriveX

This just keeps getting better. In case anyone needs some FedEx packages sent out, I've got a good, working FedEx account number for everyone:

Um...

Ever stop to think that the FedEx account number might be stolen, too?

I'd try to see if it doesn't belong to someone else before running up a huge bill for him...

[Buckaroo]

Have you emailed him asking him about the money yet?

[starman]

I'd report him BEFORE the package gets there.

[Tesseract]

Good, but not quite as good as the
P-P-P-PowerBook [pdf].

[mdc]

very nice work iDriveX.

[misc]

In the first couple emails he is buying the laptop for his son. Now he's buying it for his daughter. Ha.

[turtle777]

-t

[Randman]

The PayPal note in the jpeg has tons of typos as well.

[starman]

What's the tracking number? What's the expected delivery date?

Make sure you document all this.

Mike

[Captain Obvious]

Did the laptop have a custom paint job?
I hear those are awesome.

[olePigeon]

I almost wanna get a scam email to see if I can get some free money.

I think there's a website that keeps track of how much money they scam from the Nigeria scammers, then they donate the money to a charity.

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by Captain Obvious

Did the laptop have a custom paint job?
I hear those are awesome.

good memory.

[Super Mario]

Smelly envelope. Nice. Hey if I put my excretion on the internet and say it has the face of JEsus or name of Allah do you think I will get enough to buy a nice new G5??